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Innovative new services born from the bankruptcy of Douglas & McIntyre

When Douglas & McIntyre – once one of Canada’s largest independent book publishers – filed for bankruptcy in fall 2012, the news sent reverberations throughout the industry. Although rumours swirled at the time that the ... Read More »

September 11, 2017

Q&A: Twitter comedian Jonny Sun on the voice of jomny, aliens, anxiety, and his new book

By Q&Q Staff

The Twitterverse can often feel like an angry and abusive politically charged melee, but there are those out there trying to counteract the negativity. Since joining the social-media site in 2009, Calgary-born Jonathan Sun has ... Read More »

August 10, 2017

Quotables: Canadian booksellers on 20 years of Harry Potter

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June 26 marks the 20th anniversary of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Although its beginnings were modest – only 500 copies of the first hardcover edition were initially published by Bloomsbury – today, ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

Fall Preview 2017: International

By Q&Q Staff

Fiction Salman Rushdie returns with The Golden House, a novel being described as The Godfather meets The Great Gatsby, and touching on everything from the birther movement to Gamergate. The new book is out in ... Read More »

June 26, 2017

Grant Lawrence: After three tries, a Canadian indie band’s tour diaries finally yielded a book

By Q&Q Staff

Why now? It’s a question I’ve been asked several times about my new book, Dirty Windshields: The Best and The Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries. Why publish a memoir of 16 sordid years spent ... Read More »

May 10, 2017

Personal Essay: My novel is not particularly prescient, it’s more that reality is now encroaching on fiction, writes Omar El Akkad

By Q&Q Staff

It is September of 2015 and we have come to the Ronald Reagan library in California to watch the disintegration of the Republican Party. I am one of hundreds of journalists from around the world ... Read More »

March 27, 2017

Spring Preview 2017: International

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Fiction Short fiction Renowned feminist essayist and critic Roxane Gay follows her non-fiction book, Bad Feminist, and the novel An Untamed State with a collection of short fiction titled Difficult Women (Grove Press). • Viet ... Read More »

February 2, 2017

Personal Essay: Writing a book about New Brunswick’s most notorious murder case involved walking some thin lines

By Q&Q Staff

The murder of multi-millionaire New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland, and the investigation and trial of his only son, Dennis, has captivated public attention in the city of Saint John. It has dominated my life for ... Read More »

January 26, 2017

Q&Q staff share their holiday-gift picks

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It’s no surprise that Q&Q staff fill their holiday shopping lists with books. Here are some of the titles they’ll be wrapping up as gifts this year: "The book that I’m giving as a gift ... Read More »

December 15, 2016

2016: The Year in Review

By Q&Q Staff

Our 2015 Year in Review suggested there was reason to feel cautiously optimistic heading into 2016. That prediction was not inaccurate. A new federal government, which seemingly supports open dialogue with authors and publishers, and ... Read More »

December 6, 2016

Personal Essay: Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes Kerry Lee Powell

By Q&Q Staff

I read Alice Munro for the first time when I was living in a semi-abandoned cottage near an open-cast coal mine in Wales. We had no TV and no central heating and the nearest village ... Read More »

December 5, 2016 | Filed under: Authors

Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?

By Q&Q Staff

Every year, the search for the Great Gay Novel proves to be more challenging than the last. A few rare exceptions sprout up annually: in 2014, Toronto writer Greg Kearney was nominated for a Lambda ... Read More »

November 29, 2016

Books of the Year 2016

By Q&Q Staff

Q&Q editors Steven W. Beattie and Sue Carter reveal some of their favourite releases of 2016 The Parcel Anosh Irani Knopf Canada Anosh Irani, who grew up near the red-light district in Mumbai, employs first-hand ... Read More »

November 28, 2016

Books of the Year 2016: Reviewer Picks

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Q&Q contributors select their favourite releases of the year The Break Katherena Vermette House of Anansi Press Katherena Vermette’s fiction debut is a novel that allows, like no other, mainstream society to peer into the ... Read More »

November 28, 2016

Spaces: The Regina Public Library has a history of innovative community programming

By Q&Q Staff

For more than 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served the community with innovative programming. From J.R.C. Honeyman, its first librarian from 1908 to 1936, and his efforts to ensure immigrants had access to ... Read More »

November 24, 2016 | Filed under: Libraries

Little Free Library owners can be zealous, but not all find membership rewarding

By Q&Q Staff

When Megan Williams decided to install a Little Free Library in front of her house in 2014, her reasons were more pragmatic than whimsical. During the process of selling her family home, Williams realized she ... Read More »

November 17, 2016

Book Making: A wealth of archival material made every day Christmas for Steve Penfold

By Q&Q Staff

When a boy from the Toronto suburbs grows up to write A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade (University of Toronto Press), one might expect the book to be filled ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling

Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winners and their editors share memories of working together

By Q&Q Staff

As the Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize turns 20, former award recipients and their editors share a behind-the-scenes look at their winning collaborations Emma Donoghue, author, and Iris Tupholme, editor Room, 2010 ED: Iris has ... Read More »

November 2, 2016

By the covers: Twenty years of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winners and editors

By Q&Q Staff

As the Writers' Trust of Canada's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize turns 20 this year‚ Q&Q looks back on two decades ... Read More »

November 2, 2016

André Alexis

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Profile: André Alexis’s key to success

November 1, 2016

Personal Essay: Poetry and prose offer different ways to deal with illness

By Q&Q Staff

On the day I was diagnosed with cancer, I began a journal. Throughout my adult life, writing has been my touchstone and I knew that if I were to survive the upheaval that accompanies a ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Spaces: Flying Books brings an eclectic list of titles to unexpected places

By Q&Q Staff

In an era when physical book retailers are fewer and far between, Martha Sharpe has come up with a radical idea. Flying Books is a bookstore within another store: a small, expertly curated rotating selection ... Read More »

October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling

After years of austerity, Library and Archives Canada is ready to (re)meet its public

By Q&Q Staff

This May, the Pellan Room at Library and Archives Canada hosted the launch of author Heather Menzies’s Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, a memoir in which the former head of the Writers’ Union ... Read More »

October 17, 2016

Kristi Charish

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Profile: Kristi Charish’s science training lends believability to her work

October 11, 2016

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Fall Preview 2017: International

Grant Lawrence: After three tries, a Canadian indie band’s tour diaries finally yielded a book

Personal Essay: My novel is not particularly prescient, it’s more that reality is now encroaching on fiction, writes Omar El Akkad

Spring Preview 2017: International

Personal Essay: Writing a book about New Brunswick’s most notorious murder case involved walking some thin lines

Q&Q staff share their holiday-gift picks

2016: The Year in Review

Personal Essay: Alice Munro’s fiction charts a course to addressing trauma with grace, writes Kerry Lee Powell

Is it time for Canadian gay literature to leave its comfort zone and respond to the Grindr generation?

Books of the Year 2016

Books of the Year 2016: Reviewer Picks

Spaces: The Regina Public Library has a history of innovative community programming

Little Free Library owners can be zealous, but not all find membership rewarding

Book Making: A wealth of archival material made every day Christmas for Steve Penfold

Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winners and their editors share memories of working together

By the covers: Twenty years of Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize winners and editors

André Alexis

Personal Essay: Poetry and prose offer different ways to deal with illness

Spaces: Flying Books brings an eclectic list of titles to unexpected places

After years of austerity, Library and Archives Canada is ready to (re)meet its public

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